recreant

Example Sentences

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Poet Vachel Lindsay, who has hymned many cities, played up the prosy aspect of "this Buffalo, this recreant town," to get a contrast for the "deathless glory" of nearby Niagara Falls.

From Time Magazine Archive

To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy.

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Richberg was not only recreant to his obligations as a public servant, but a traitor to organized labor when he made that recommendation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Will the world or any portion of it be so recreant as to misunderstand this contemptuous challenge?''

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“My King, my lord and my uncle. Is it the court’s will that I pronounce sentence upon this recreant traitor?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White